Janus: The Papers of Sir Edward Spears

Churchill/SPRS contains:
1	Correspondence
2	Personal
3	Business papers
4	Family and personal correspondence
5	Diaries and journals
6	Public
7	Speeches and articles
8	Literary
9	Press cuttings
10	Photographs
11	Mary Borden

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The Papers of Sir Edward Spears

Title	Speeches and articles
Reference	SPRS 7
Covering Dates	1930–1967
Extent and Medium	5 archive boxes

Churchill/SPRS 7 contains:

Articles and broadcasts on the United States. Manuscript texts and drafts on subjects including: the Chicago prison system; ELS's impressions of Chicago; New York harbour; Wall Street; selling time. Also includes: a letter from ELS to Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] on ELS's view of Communism being preferable to American capitalism, and his own visit to the United States; a diary from John Drury (Chicago Daily News) on his and ELS's sightseeing trips in Chicago.
1 file.

1930

Articles and broadcasts on the United States. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: Prohibition; ELS's impressions of Chicago; America and the next European war, including ELS's view of Benito Mussolini; American lawlessness; isolationism, protectionism and the Wall Street Crash; the United States and the First World War. Also includes copy of a letter from ELS on publication of the articles.
1 file.

c 1930-c 1931

Articles on Marshal Joseph Joffre.
1 file.

c 1931

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: the memoirs of Marshal Ferdinand Foch; whether generals were human; relations between Britain and France; ELS's experiences with the French army in July 1914; spies in the First World War and the bombardment of Paris; the law on suicide pacts; Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg; French disarmament; various book reviews, including the memoirs of Raymond Poincare.
1 file.

1931

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: Paul Painleve; ELS's experiences with the French army in July 1914; Aristide Briand; Parliament and the public purse; towards an Anglo-French understanding; storm clouds in Europe, on relations between France and Germany; review of the memoirs of Marshal Joseph Joffre; review of "Escapers All" on the stories of escaped prisoners of war; the peace-keeping role of an international air force; Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg.
1 file.

1932

International Air Police Force. Speaking notes for ELS's speech in Parliament on the low prestige of the League of Nations and the feasibility of an international air force controlled by the League.
1 file.

1933

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts of articles and some broadcasts on subjects including: General Maxime Weygand; the Local Defence Volunteers; co-operation between the Army and Royal Air Force, particularly relating to operations in France; the need for strong leadership and a small War Cabinet in the direction of the war effort; whether the Royal Air Force should retain its own authority; General Alphonse Georges; France as Britain's ally; the war of nerves with Germany; Adolf Hitler's tactics; problems caused by bureaucracy; the need for reform of the Vagrancy Act following the death of Thomas Parker while in prison; the Anglo-German Naval Agreement; the dangers of isolation from the rest of Europe; workers' holiday entitlement; a demilitarized zone between France and Germany; the failure of the League of Nations following Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; co-ordination of the Defence services; General Alexander von Kluck; the twentieth anniversary of the start of the First World War; the political situation in France (1934); German aggression towards Austria; a native Parliament in Kenya, following the report of the Kenya Land Commission; Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg; the memoirs of Raymond Poincare; Christmas 1917; the danger of preventive war; threatened revision of the Treaty of Versailles; the economic recovery under the National Government.
2 files.

1933–1940

Broadcast from Palestine. Gramophone records of ELS's speech delivered at the Near East Arab broadcasting station in Jaffa, Palestine [later Tel Aviv-Jaffa], at the end of his tenure as First Minister to Syria and the Lebanon.
2 items.

09 Dec 1944

Articles. Typescript texts, drafts and press cuttings on subjects including: the future of Syria and the Lebanon, particularly on relations with France; the importance of the Middle East to the Commonwealth and Empire; Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; the declaration of war against Germany by Syria and Lebanon; the formation of the Arab League through the Protocol of Alexandria.
1 file.

Dec 1944-Mar 1945

Speeches. Typescript texts and drafts and speech notes on subjects including: Arab concerns about France's reluctance to grant independence to Syria and Lebanon, and maintaining an Arab majority in Palestine; the importance of the Middle East to Britain; Arab unity; the abandonment of Poland; hostile French actions in Syria; security in the Middle East; separate security councils in different regions of the world; the economic challenges ahead; looking ahead to ELS's re-election campaign as MP for Carlisle [Cumberland].
1 file.

Jan 1945-Mar 1945

Articles and speeches. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: British policy in the Middle East; a plan for Palestine; British foreign policy; the chances of another crisis in the Levant.
1 file.

Feb 1945-Mar 1946

Interviews and press statements. Typescript texts of interviews with the Associated Press, Arab News Agency and Lord Stansgate [Secretary of State for Air, earlier William Wedgwood Benn] on subjects including: the agreement between France and Britain allowing France to maintain troops in the Lebanon; General Charles de Gaulle's qualities as a leader; the importance of Arab unity; the importance of maintaining good relations with the Arabs in Egypt and Palestine.
1 file.

Feb 1946-Jun 1946

Churchill: article and correspondence. Text of ELS's article on Churchill for the New Universal Encyclopedia, with associated correspondence on publishing the full article and also a shortened version, with individuals including: Gordon Stowell, Editor of the New Universal Encyclopedia (4); Winston Churchill (2); General Sir Hastings Ismay [former Chief of Staff to Churchill] providing a list of Churchill's journeys during the war; [George] Wren Howard, Director of Jonathan Cape Limited; [Herbert] Jonathan Cape, Chairman of Jonathan Cape Limited; Rupert Hart-Davis, Director of Rupert Hart-Davis Limited; Brendan Bracken; Walter Hutchinson, Chairman and Managing Director of Hutchinson and Company (Publishers), Limited.
1 file.

Apr 1946-Jan 1947

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: the slowness of the French withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon; the authoritarianism of the Labour Government; the Palestine problem; France's debt to General Charles de Gaulle; ELS's recent visit to the Middle East (October-November 1946). Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press.
1 file.

Apr 1946-Feb 1947

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: difficulties between Arabs and Jews in Palestine; whether co-operation in the Middle East between Britain, France and the United States was possible; the partition of Palestine. Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press, including Ivor Brown, Editor of the Observer.
1 file.

Jan 1947-Feb 1948

Articles. Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: British policy in the Middle East; the partition of Palestine; the status of Jerusalem; the consequences of a Communist Government in Italy; the memoirs of General Georges Catroux; Marshal Philippe Petain. Also includes associated correspondence, with individuals including Paul Reynaud.
1 file.

Feb 1948-Jan 1950

Speeches. Typescript texts and drafts, with associated correspondence, on subjects including: the Institute of Directors; Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; British industry and the Lister group. Also includes notes on ELS's career and publicity material on R. A. Lister and Company Limited.
1 file.

Apr 1949-Dec 1950

Articles. Typescript texts of articles on the elections in Gold Coast [later Ghana] and the success of the communist Convention Peoples Party, and also on the assassination of King Abdullah of Transjordan.
1 file.

Mar 1951-Jul 1951

Articles. Typescript and manuscript texts and drafts on subjects including: the mutinies of French soldiers in 1917; the career of Sir Winston Churchill; relations between Britain and France over Syria and Lebanon during the war; the Arab world today; Major-General Sir John Davidson's book on 1st Lord Haig, "Haig Master of the Field"; the danger of politicians being over-swayed by public opinion.
1 file.

1953

Speeches. Manuscript and typescript speech notes on subjects including: Roger Bannister; the success of the Institute of Directors; ELS's own writing work; the mistake of being bound too closely to France; has France a future?; Winston Churchill, including a review of the final volume of his war memoirs; a review of Major-General Gerald Verney's history of the Seventh Armoured Division, the 'Desert Rats'; Marshal Philippe Petain and the 1917 mutinies in the French army.
2 files.

Apr 1953-Nov 1955

Articles. Typescript texts, proofs and press cuttings on subjects including: a tribute to 1st Lord Ismay; General Charles de Gaulle; the Arab world and the West; Winston Churchill; a review of A W Kinglake's "Eothen"; the nuclear deterrent; the French parliamentary crisis; a review of "A Soldier with the Arabs" by Sir John Glubb [former Officer Commanding Arab Legion, Transjordan]; increased pay for MPs; a review of Pierre Mendes-France's book [? "Sept mois, dix-sept jours"]; the propaganda war in the Middle East; countering inflation.
1 file.

Dec 1955-Sep 1957

Broadcast on the Somme. Rough speech notes and source material for ELS's broadcast on the Battle of the Somme, 1916. . Also includes rough notes on Danzig [Gdansk, Poland] and a memorandum on the Dardanelles and the Straits Convention.
1 file.

Apr 1966-Jul 1966

Article on the British People. Typescript drafts and rough notes for an article on the depressed state of Britain, including faults of the United Nations, unilateral disarmament, the Common Market and Channel Tunnel.
1 file.

Sep 1967